Pressed-steel wheel.



Patented mm, 1911.

Inventor Witne ses Attorneys me n-arm, WHEEL- To. all whom it may concern.

I "-Be it-lmown that I, JUSTICE W, SnAin'cK, :ac tizen of'the Un ted States, residing at -Frankfort, in'the county. of Clinton and State of Indiana, have invented a'nefwand. useful Pressed-Steel Wheel,

of which the ifollowing is a specification.

It isthe object of this invention to pro- 1 vide-z'lsmetal wheel soconstructed that it is 1o :adapted toreceive -.a-:fill ing. whereby the ----\\-eight of the wheel may be increased, the wh'eelbemg so. constructed,that thelillnrle' may readily be placed bothiu thebody of,

-- the wheeliand in therim-thereot'.

" 1 shows the invention inside elevation; Fig.

2 is a transverse section.

The axle'ot' the wheeleomprises a tubular *portion L providedwith spaced, ouhgtand in; shoulders-2, 1n-eierably extended m :tirely around the tubular part-1;, 'lhe ends" of the tubular part 1 outstaml' slightly bei -yo'nd the shoulders has denoted by the nu meral 3, and upon the remote t'aees of the shoulders 2, thereare pro ectmg lugs-l, (llS- posed approximately parallel to the axis of.

the tubular portion 1 of the axle.

The invention .t'urther includes a pair or side plates, denoted in Fig, 1 of the drawings.

generally, by the numeral 'lhese' plates -5 are preferably fashioned irom pressed steel, and are sumlar 1n forru, both of the 1 said plates beingtashioned in a single-die.

"There are O'lOIllIWS in the centers of the.

plates 5, the openings being adapted to reeeive the ends of thetubular part 1 of the hub, the plates beingarrauged to. abut against the shoulders 2,-suitable apertures being provided in the plates,-for the reeep tion of the lugs t, these lugs preferably be;

:ing malleable, so that they may be buttf 'ended upon the outer facesof plates. Those portions of the plates 5 which arelocated adjacent theaxle, are disposed in double eonvexed relation with respect to each other,

' as seen at 6. Adjacehtthe periphery ofthe wheehthe' plates are bent. outwardly in op pos1tedirections,as seen at 7, and thence.

t-hewheehiin parallel relation to each other, as' at 8.: The extremeedgesof the plates-are .bentgztoward each other, and'ibrought iut o' i-contact, :as-at 9,-to. define the tread of the wheehthe portions 9 inclining. slightly away;

tral="portion of the. tread will outstai ide from the center of the wheel, so that the con- A g earried upwardly toward the; peripher-ypf v ientrain fine recesses in-the{"o uterfaces of the 5,; Retaining elements, r1\ 'ets 12 or. the like,

specifie form of filling; found a mixture of cement and scrap metal,

, slightlybeyond the edgesot the treathas seen a'tf'lO. 1. Thejplates 5, at spacedpoints adjacent the run, are'Struck inwardlyinto'eontact. to deconn'et theplate's' 5, the rivets 12 being 16-- eatedin the 'reeess'esjll- {The'hetrds of the rivets are 1 housed in thea'eeesses. 1 Thus,

theredu'e no ontstanding-"projections upon the-outside of the wheel. This construction.

desirable notably, fill dhfoli obvious reasons, u-hexuthewheel isremployed upon a ra pidlr rotating;- shaft. And, wherever the wheel is employed, the absence'of projections upon the outside of the wheel adjacentthe rim. rendersthe painting'fof the wheel a matter easily fiche-accomplished.-, By reasonflof'tlie' fact that the plates 5 are in contact a t- Lspaced- "pointsiadjacent the recesses 11, the weenie strengthened adjacent its run, the central cha'i'nber of-thenvheel necessarily"eonununicating with therim cham- 'sort, when an unusually heavy wheelis required, such, for instant-ens a press wheel in a grain {drilL 'lhis filling 14 maybe (if any form, and I wish'to limit myself to no however, I have 'suclnfor instance, as metal-turningg to provesatisfactory. f

the plates-"These lugseonstitute the sole abutting portions of the plates, between the axis'of the wheel and the rim of, the wheel.

his to benoted that when the plates are struek inwardly to form the recesses 11, terminally abutting lu'gsare fashioned in plates These contacting lugsserveatostifien the wheel adjacent its rim, without. however,

i interferingwith the insertion of' a mono-- lit-hi0 filling" into 'the wheel, such filling flowing readily,- when in plastic condition, from the [central chamber oft-he wheel into the rimtthereofi fI-he heads of the rivets are housed in-,-the--r.ecsses 11, :beyond the planes of the outer faces of the plates which go to make 'npthe"wheeI,-'-and thus,-if the wheel is used upon a rapidly rotating shaft,

' the rivets will not outstand, to catch the Wheel toward the periphery thereof, the pebeing bulged in op posite directions to bring their edges into.

ripheries of the plates abutment and to define a chamber in the whe'el rim, communicating with the central :chamber of the wheel'gb'oth plates, at spaced being inclined points ad acentthe rim of the wheel, being struck inwardly to'form terminally abutting lugs and to form recesses 1n the outer faces of theplates, the lugs constituting the sole points of contact in the plates bet-ween the rim and the axis of the wheel; and retaining elements extended through the lugs, the retaining elements having heads located in the recesses between facesofthe plates.

j'In testimony that I claim the 'foregoing as my own, I-have hereto afiixed mysignature in'the presence of two witnesses.-

. v JUSTICE W. SHARICK. Witnesses:

CARL A. Lmn, BERT WILLS.

the planes of the onto.- 

